Category Archives: Heroic stuff we admire

People who are doing something awesome. Projects that are awesome. Thinking that’s awesome. In short, heroics :D

What’s Awesome About GOV.UK

The UK government have just launched launched the beta of their GOV.UK site, which is the first step towards creating a single website for information on public services and will eventually replace Directgov, which launched in 2004. The beta stage … Continue reading

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Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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Thames Tunnel videos syndicated from our site

As I touched upon in my previous launch post we made the decision to host all of Thames Tunnel’s consultation materials on resources that allowed users to easily share, embed and generally syndicate them.  One of these systems is the … Continue reading

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(Encore Jukesie) – or “three thoughts about Betagov and the wider public sector”

Yesterday Matt Jukes put out a “Betagov blues..” post on his Digital by Default blog. Matt reflected on a frustrating gap between what the Betagov team are doing (it’s pretty awesome), and what life is like for public sector digital … Continue reading

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Open Data, Government, and the importance of acting now…

I’m currently at the fantastic Picnic festival in Amsterdam, where many things are being discussed under this years theme Urban Futures. One of the highlight of yesterday was a round table discussion on Open Government Data. The speakers included Lawrence … Continue reading

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How collaboration can improve our cities (2 examples)

(By Matt Golding at Picnic in Amsterdam) A great talk at Picnic just now by Jake Barton of Local Projects. Local projects are doing some fantastic work in the US looking at using local government as a platform for unlocking … Continue reading

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#ukriots – not a soapbox, but some insights + some interesting positives

So, any insights from riot coverage and conversations on Twitter and mainstream media? I followed #ukriots and #bristolriots for a couple of days more or less continuously (except when I was asleep) . Here’s some observations: Some idiocy – far, … Continue reading

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It’s not digital democracy but I like it

I posted over on my personal blog about Bristol City Council encouraging kids to play (safely) in the street. They’re doing this by cutting red tape, and allowing residents to decide what goes on in their street. It’s truly local. … Continue reading

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Zoho CRM support

We use Zoho for our CRM system. We like their product and their support. Do you know anyone who’s better? Continue reading

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Hyper local #Gov2au and the genius of Garage Sale Trail

One of the key themes of this year’s Frocomm Gov2.0 conference in Sydney was *hyper-localism*. In the UK Hyperlocalism is a bit of buzz word, and something that the Coalition with their Big Society concept is trying to leverage to … Continue reading

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